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pith:WWEF3DGW

pith:2021:WWEF3DGWQ6TREAD7BFJUJ6HRTT

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The energetics of quantum vacuum friction: Field fluctuations

Gerard Kennedy, Kimball A. Milton, Nima Pourtolami, William P. McNulty, Xin Guo, Yang Li

arxiv:2108.01539 v4 · 2021-08-03 · hep-th · physics.atom-ph · quant-ph

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Perspectives on Quantum Friction, Self-Propulsion, and Self-Torque

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:42:45.451825Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5885d8cd687a712007f095344f8f19cce005022d199fe176e21c40b40cf6bb6

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arxiv: 2108.01539 · arxiv_version: 2108.01539v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.01539 · pith_short_12: WWEF3DGWQ6TR · pith_short_16: WWEF3DGWQ6TREAD7 · pith_short_8: WWEF3DGW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WWEF3DGWQ6TREAD7BFJUJ6HRTT \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: b5885d8cd687a712007f095344f8f19cce005022d199fe176e21c40b40cf6bb6

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2021-08-03T14:44:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0642d5c94506011ccd9a37e8e06ee27df129ee2dc041835d0abd2bfbb643fc6e"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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